Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
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The car gearbox manufacturer Punch Powerglide is to recruit about 200 employees by 2016. The aim of the company is to increase its production of new 8 speed automatic gearboxes for the car manufacturer BMW. For this reason Punch Powerglad has decided on an investment of €60 million euro in its site increasing the workforce from 1,150 to 1,350 employees.
Eurofound (2015), Punch Powerglide, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 83556, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83556.